[Discuss] RMS talks in March

[Rich Johnson]

I am too, but I am still gonna make a crack, probably because I know that
with all the good he has done, he has also helped in the division as well.
I remember the first talk I went to of his back in the early 90s while
stationed out east, he tugged on my heart strings & from then on out I was
a Linux dude. Then I remember seeing his talks when his GNU/Linux approach
rubbed a majority of the community wrong. So like I said, I am thankful for
what he did years ago, but today he just continues that same approach which
proves it does not work anymore. I can't fault him for staying the course,
but damn that course is leading him nowhere these days. I have seen the
good & bad of this community (been in it since the early 90s), & I am tired
of holding people like him up on a pedestal anymore. It was cool when I was
younger I guess, maybe I just grew out of it. #handsanitizer

--Rich

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know many of us are all familiar with anecdotes about Richard
> Stallman, but the fact remains that he founded the GNU project and
> started gcc.  It probably did take an eccentric individual to think
> this was a feasible in the early 80s.  A couple decades later, I
> observe that folks sometime do get annoyed with his personality
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/629259/), but that is the same personality
> that created the foundation of what we have today.
>
> So, when I get the urge to make a crack about rms, I try to remember
> that I am thankful for my Linux kernel compiled with gcc.
>
> cheers,
> drew
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Rich Johnson <nixternal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ball scratch & shake time people, bring your hand sanitizer! Oh the good
> ol'
> > days :D
> >
> > --Rich
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Brian <brian at fiberoverethernet.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> Just an FYI that RMS will be here in March.
> >>
> >> https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> -Brian
> >>
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